Gallery Bookshop's Poetry Showcase features a poetry reading by Maureen Eppstein, Daughter, Gallery Bookshop, Main and Kasten Streets, Mendocino, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.gallerybookshop.com, 707/937-2665)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)